Over the past decade, Russia has seen a sharp increase in treason and espionage cases. Lawyers and experts say prosecutions for these high crimes started to grow after 2014 – the year when ...

In the video, he tried to shield his face from the camera. Treason cases, held behind closed doors in Russia, hardly ever result in an acquittal, official statistics show. Such prosecutions have risen ...

But in the related case of United States v. Burr (1807), Marshall tacked slightly. He again rejected constructive treason, but did so by holding that Aaron Burr, if not physically present in an ...

(There is a reference in the judgment to the claim that all treason laws have retrospective effect.) He concludes that the prosecution has failed to make out a case of high treason against the ...

“HRCBM condemns treason charges against Hindu leader Chinmaya Krishna Bhrammacharee and 18 others in Bangladesh . These ...

Away from the battlefield, President Volodymyr Zelensky suspended the head of Ukraine's spy agency (SBU) and the prosecutor general, saying there were many cases of treason in the two organisations.

In the video, he tried to shield his face from the camera. Treason cases, held behind closed doors in Russia, hardly ever result in an acquittal, official statistics show. Such prosecutions have ...

As for high treason cases, the main question is whether the defendant made a conscious choice, said Oleg Zherdev, founder of the Russian association of law enforcement lawyers Gvardia.

Pakistan's former president Pervez Musharraf is expected to testify in two important cases - one relating to Benazir Bhutto's murder and the other concerning high treason charge - in the coming weeks.